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  • 28/02/2025 Fishing Report by Andy Savage on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    28 Feb 2025 by Andy Savage

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    A sharp overnight frost had me scraping the windows on Sea Urchin this morning, but thankfully it turned out to be a beautiful sunny day spent with a fantastic bunch of lads.
    We’re back in big Spring Tide phase at the moment and today saw a 5.5m which was Ebbing nicely as we left the harbour. I chose to push tide and run South down towards Robin Hoods Bay as I always feel at this time of year there’s a chance of a better fish that way.

    After a 30 minute steam, we had the anchor down and the lads got organised; fishing with a mixture of Dirty Squid, Black Lugworm and Crab Cart. It didn’t take too long before the rod tips started twitching and a few small Codling started to come up. There were quite a few tentative rattles which didn’t develop and sure enough Lobsters were the likely culprits as a couple were caught amongst the Codling. After a steady hour we chose to have a move a bit further down, to find a touch more tide.

    We had similar results here as well, with fairly regular bites around the boat. Whilst the sport wasn’t frantic, it was much better than the last couple of Uptiding trips, with everyone getting in on the sport. Surprisingly, slack water even did a few fish today. As the first sniff of the Flood tide came through we repositioned the boat to make sure the anchor didn’t get jammed. As soon as we got going the bites started up again.
    In all honesty, the consistency of the bites around the boat exceeded my expectations. Some of the lads had quiet spells during the day, but from a Skippers perspective, there was always something happening somewhere.

    The average stamp of Codling wasn’t exceptional, with Ian Kellock taking the biggest one at 5lb 8oz amongst the dozen fish he caught. Everyone came armed with good bait today; which is essential. Overall, Crab Cart was the most effective, but Squid & Blacks received more attention on the Ebb. We had four moves during the day and caught at all four, I was happy with that. The chat and laughs amongst the anglers was brilliant and the day flew by for me. Hopefully tomorrow will yield similar results for us.

    Thanks lads, you were brilliant company.

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    1 Space Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 4.96m Rob Waterworth - x 1 Jamie Britton - x 1 Jason Shields - x 1 Calvin Dipper - x 3 Allan Knaggs - x 1 Iain MacMillan - x 2
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    Mon 26/05/2025
    1 Space Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.37m Luke Staniland - x 2 Alan Lawson - x 3 John Hutchinson - x 3
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    5 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.09m Ali Clelland-Ball - x 1 Derek Coulson - x 3 Ian Scrivens - x 1
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    Thu 19/06/2025
    3 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 4.93m Ian Kellock x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1 Dan Evans - x 2 Jamie Britton - x 2 Ray Malik - x 1
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    Fri 20/06/2025
    2 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 4.94m Stan Matthews - x 1 Jeff Turner - x 1 John Hutchinson - x 2 Derek Hopkinson - x 4
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    Fri 27/06/2025
    4 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.51m Toby Plotzitzka - x 1 Joe Clough - x 1 Dave Kent - x 3
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    Mon 30/06/2025
    4 Spaces Available 12hr Offshore Trip - 5.29m £75 per Angler Ian Kellock - x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1 Mal Ruff - x 1 Steve Milnes - x 1 Pete Goddard - x 2
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    Tue 01/07/2025
    Summer Festival 4 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.11m Andy Burrell - x 1 Alan - x 5
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    Wed 02/07/2025
    Summer Festival 5 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 4.92m Ian Kellock x 1 Stan Matthews x 1 Charlie Hewitt x 1 Chris Chatham - x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1
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    Mon 07/07/2025
    Summer Festival 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.52m Alan - x 7 Steve Whitaker - x 1
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